text: The 100 best novels: No 33  Sister Carrie by Theodore Dreiser ...  May 5, 2014 ... Theodore Dreiser was no stylist, but there's a terrific momentum to his novel about a ... The novel opens with Caroline  Sister Carrie  Meeber moving from the ... the train to Chicago to realise her hopes for a better, more glamorous future. ... But in 1981, the so-called "Pennsylvania edition" (Philadelphia:...